Bottle carrier



H. W. PROBST. BOTTLE CARRIER. APPLlCATlON FILED SEPT. 19,1921.

'Patnted Feb. 21, 1922.

Calume I HENRY W. PROBST, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

BOTTLE CARRIER.

onaco.

Specification of letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

Application filed September 19, 1921. Serial No. 501,691.

' and useful Bottle Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to carriers for bottles and the object is to provide a light and efficient device particularly adaptable for carrying milk bottles in such a manner that the handling of same is reduced to a minimum and the danger of breaking bottles is eliminated.

In the accompanying drawing;

Fig. l is a side elevation of my device shown as applied to a milk bottle.

Fig. 2 is a right hand elevation of Fig. 1-

Fig. 3 is a top view of Fig. 1.

Fig. t is a perspective View, in reduced scale, of my device in position to beplaced on a milk bottle or removed therefrom.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, my device is preferably made of wire and consists of an upper and a lower member slidable on each other and frictionally engaged by having their vertical parts resilient. The upper member is formed of two vertical'bars 5 having their upper ends united by a segment 5 fitting one side of the neck 7., near below the top collar 8 of said neck. The lower ends of the bars are united by a larger segment 9 fitting the side of the body of the bottle opposite from that engaged by the small segment.

The larger member is formed with a handle 10 spaced away from the bottle and having its upper and lower end connected by a vertically disposed sliding bar 11 which slides in an eye 12 formed at the middle of the large segment and has its upper end secured to a small segment 13 having eyes 14 slidable on the side bars of the upper member. The lower end of the handle and of the sliding bar are rigidly secured to a ring 15 adapted to loosely encircle the lower end of the bottle and to slip below said end in engaging and disengaging the bottle from the carrier.

The handle 10, the sliding bar 11, segment 13 and ring 15 are preferably made of one single piece of wire doubled throughout eX- cept in the large ring which is formed of the middle portion of the wire, the rest of the wire extending thence upward to form the handle, then the segment 13 and the sliding bar 11 whose lower ends are suitably secured to the large ring 15- In the application and use of the device, if

the bottle is to be carried by the device the latter is placed as in Fig. 4, while segment 5 is slipped below collar 8 and ring 15 low enough to slip under and then upward about the lower end of the bottle. The latter movement of the large ring also brings handle 10, bar 11 upward and thereby segment 13 up under the collar of the bottle neck, where it combines with segment 5 to form a ring about the neck.

In this manner the bottle is readily carried by the handle 10; and when the bottle is to be released the handle is simply pushed downward and then swung with the lower end away from the bottle (as in Fig. 4) and the segment 5- lifted above the bottle neck and removed with the device.

What I claim is:

1. A bottle carrying device composed of two skeletoned members slidable vertically on each other, the upper member comprising a pair of vertically disposed bars having a comparatively small segmental loop arranged to fit the bottle neck near below its collar and its lower ends united by a larger segmental loop adapted to fit the opposite side of the body of the bottle and having at its middle an eye; the lower member composed of a ring adapted to embrace loosely the lower end of the bottle and having a vertically disposed rod slidable in the eye and at the upper end formed with a segmental portion slidable 011 the vertical bars of the upper member and arranged to slide up to the collar of the bottle neck and there coact with the upper segment of the upper frame to form a ring about the neck of the bottle, and a vertically disposed handle connecting the upper and lower ends of the slidable bar and suitably ofi'set away from the latter intermediate its ends.

2. The structure specified in claim 1, said members being each formed of a single piece of wire.

3. The structure specified in claim 1, said members having their vertically disposed portions made of resilient material, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

HENRY W. PROBST. 

